· 1/31/1940
Womble v. Mutual Life Ins.
Citations
- 59 F. Supp. 449
- 1940 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2046
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- finding equitable tolling doctrine applicable where the Commissioner of the EEOC admitted that the EEOC sent the plaintiff an erroneous right to sue letter
- modifying judgment as to Title VII statute of limitations so that it would “have prospective effect only, from the date of the original decision, plus 90 days.”
- finding that white employee had standing under the Civil Rights Act to sue employer for allegedly forcing Mm into premature retirement solely because he had sold his house in a neighborhood inhabited primarily by white employees to a black fellow employee
- finding equitable tolling doctrine applicable where the Commissioner of the EEOC admitted that the EEOC sent the plaintiff an erroneous right to sue letter
- finding that a white employee had standing under the Civil Rights Act to sue his employer for allegedly forcing him into premature retirement solely because he had sold his house in a neighborhood inhabited primarily by white employees to a black fellow employee
- analyzing the procedure for notification of an EEOC finding of “no reasonable cause.”
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